Calixto Garcia

Calixto Garcia (4 August 1839-11 December 1898) was a Cuban general during the Ten Years' War, Little War, and the Cuban War of Independence.

Biography
Calixto Garcia was born in Holguin, Spanish Cuba in 1839 to a criollo family, and he was known to be a large, strong, educated man. His grandmother was the daughter of a cacique from Venezuela. Garcia took part in the Ten Years' War against the Spanish occupiers, during which he attempted to shoot himself rather than be captured; however, he survived with a great scar on his forehead, and he was imprisoned until the Pact of Zanjon in 1878. He joined Antonio Maceo Grajales in fighting in the Little War and the Cuban War of Independence, and, in 1898, he died of pneumonia while he was serving on a diplomatic mission to the United States in Washington DC.